Metaphysical Fiction

Using humor and horror, satire and allegory, fabulism and realism, Tales from the Liminal takes you for an extraordinary ride, submerging you in spaces where anything is possible, especially transformation.

Pregnant with her father's child, 19-year-old Courtney is a girl on the run, willing to do anything to make her way on the road. When a car accident leaves her wounded by the side of a desolate highway, she is taken in by an environmentalist doomsday cult led by the enigmatic Saint Ambrose, a charismatic preacher and ex-environmental scientist who gave up everything after claiming to see the face of God. When he meets the seemingly vulnerable Courtney, he is taken by her beauty and her wounded soul.

A groundbreaking book in the tradition of The Alchemist and The Celestine Prophecy, The Mosaic, by marketing expert and activist Daniel Bruce Levin, invites you to see the world from a new point of view - one that focuses on what connects us to each other and brings us happiness. The Mosaic follows the journey of Mo, a boy who loses his parents two years apart on the same day.

Join Asbestos and the other 12 heads in their spiritual and philosophical journey through life and death. Meet Pin Head the hyper-active, hyper-critical, hypocrite; Figure Head the mystic mathematician; Pot Head the shamanistic high school teacher; and Dead Head the politically-active radical environmentalist. You'll meet a host of unique personalities in this humorous and thought-provoking philosophical fiction novella.

" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)

Un quartiere di vicoli a Napoli: Montedidio. Un ragazzo di tredici anni va a bottega da Mast'Errico, il falegname. È l'inizio della sua vita nuova, la vita che a sera, a casa, in una casa vuota per l'assenza del padre e per la malattia della madre, il ragazzo va scrivendo su una bobina di carta avuta in regalo dal tipografo di Montedidio. Ha anche un altro regalo, che porta sempre con sé, un "bùmeran", un legno nato per volare che il padre ebbe a sua volta da un marinaio di passaggio. Così passano i giorni: Mast'Errico gli insegna il mestiere e Don Rafaniello, uno scarparo che Mast'Errico tiene ospite a bottega, gli insegna a pensare sugli uomini e sulle cose.

Moving on from the trauma of combat in Afghanistan, former Green Beret Captain Sam Dale has just begun to settle down in his hometown of Castle Rock, Colorado. Now the owner of several small businesses, he is unaware that his world is about to be turned upside down. The call comes in at 2:30 a.m. The skies outside have opened up, unleashing a torrential rainstorm. Sam’s small towing company is being tasked with the retrieval of some kind of crashed aircraft.

La vida es un sueño es una obra en español de Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Publicado por primera vez en 1635 durante el período barroco español, es una alegoría filosófica sobre la situación humana y el misterio de la vida. La obra ha sido descrita como "el ejemplo supremo del drama español de la Edad de Oro". La historia se centra en el ficticio Segismundo, príncipe de Polonia, que ha sido encarcelado en una torre por su padre, el rey Basilio, siguiendo una profecía que el príncipe traería el desastre al país y la muerte al rey.

Durante buena parte de esta novela Gonzalo es un poetastro que quiere ser poeta y un padrastro que se comporta como si fuera el padre biológico de Vicente, un niño adicto a la comida para gatos que años más tarde se niega a estudiar en la universidad porque su sueño principal es convertirse -también- en poeta, a pesar de los consejos de Carla, su orgullosamente solitaria madre, y de León, un padre mediocre dedicado a coleccionar autitos de juguete.

Just as Krista’s summer plans are almost ready, she is suddenly plagued by strange dreams and intense feelings of déjà vu. Feeling like she’s losing her mind, Krista visits a psychic, only to feel more confused. When she arrives in England, her dreams persist, and she finds herself at the doorstep of another psychic. She needs clarity. Finally, the words Krista was afraid to say out loud are spoken. Now, she has to figure out what it all means. Promised Soul is a story of the past, present, and future of two souls, bound together by eternal and transcending love.

A down-to-Earth sci-fi road trip, *The Book of Constellations* is a story about Rael, who claims to be the sole survivor of an alien race, as told by Simon, the man who went with him. On a quest to save humanity from the same malevolent force that destroyed his own people, Rael believes this “Darkness” resides in the Governor of the state.

Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts. A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.

Una chica gana un concurso para participar en un nuevo proyecto en una ambiciosa compañía. Su trabajo consiste en probar el nuevo proyecto y reportar fallas. En un mundo distante, un ángel cautivo en el cielo está obligado a pagar una condena eterna mientras que la niña que estaba bajo su cuidado enfrenta sola los peligros que habitan en la Tierra. Mientras el ángel lucha por escapar y volver junto a la niña que, presiente ella, está en grave peligro, la chica empieza a descubrir algunas cosas turbias de la compañía para la que está trabajando.

Caitlyn, a mom in her late 30s, appears to be suffering from a bout of depression. When her husband’s behavior becomes suspicious, and she is not allowed to ask questions in regards to his whereabouts, she suspects that he may be having an affair. So she sets out on an obsessive mission to discover the truth. But what will she find? Could her friend be the other woman? Or is her compulsive desire for a stranger causing her to want out of her marriage? Will her search for the truth lead her down a path of darkness that could destroy her life and the lives of those around her?

Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple, Hassan hopes to light upon the details that will explain what happened to them, and to absolve his own brother, who is in prison for their disappearance. but is this annual storytelling ritual a genuine attempt to uncover the truth, or is it intended instead to weave and ambiguous mythology around a crime?

The Gods of Pegana is the first book by Anglo-Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, published on a commission basis in 1905. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana, and was a huge influence on authors such as Lovecraft and Tolkien. This is one of my favorite works of weird fantasy fiction by Lord Dunsany, and is a masterful cosmological piece of indulgent prose that actually contains some sublime wisdom between the lines.

They reach the shore, barks and joyful laughter swallowed by the crashing waves. Suddenly, an odd-looking object in the sky draws closer. As dark clouds loom, a flicker of unease crosses Scotty’s face. Before he can react, an eerie glow surrounds both boy and dog. In an instant, they vanish without a trace. Now aboard an alien ship, Scotty faces a reality far from home. The walls breathe, the corridors pulse and his fear deepens.

Don Alvaro, a young but wise man, invokes Satan in a goetic-style magical ritual. Upon seeing the young Alvaro, Beelzebub falls in love with him and assumes the appearance of a beautiful young woman. In the journey that unfolds, Satan, disguised as a woman, tries to seduce Alvaro who rejects his advances lest he lose his precious virginity.

Combien de fois avez-vous pensé que votre vie serait meilleure si vous pouviez changer une chose ou devenir quelqu'un d'autre ? Si on vous offrait une chance de le faire, la saisiriez-vous ? Il se passe bien plus de choses dans le monde que ce que l'œil naturel peut voir. La misère, la tentation et les vices jouent un rôle majeur dans la formation du chemin des gens. C'est une histoire de volonté et de foi, ou plutôt de manque de volonté et de foi. Tout le monde a un chemin à parcourir et tout le monde sera mis à l'épreuve... mais il y a toujours un prix à payer.

The survivor writing to us is an empathic 18-year-old named Tommy. He’s been sealed in a three-acre biosphere with just one other person, and the outside world has been radio-silent for the three years of their enclosure. Tommy is in telepathic contact with someone living during our time who may hold the key to an evolutionary metamorphosis. The journals, entitled Parallel Journeys, have been sent back in time to inspire you to create your own metamorphic butterfly effects to help our species avoid extinction and survive in a new form.